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Resolutions of the OLF’s 3rd National Council
Meeting |
The National
Council of Oromo Liberation Front has
successfully completed its regular meeting
that was held from March 16 to 21, 2008.
During its meeting the National Council
extensively deliberated, among others, on
important issues relevant to the
Organization, the Oromo people, the
Ethiopian Government and the Horn of Africa
and passed the below resolutions.
In its three decades long history, the Oromo
Liberation Front has passed through ups and
downs and it is continuing to rally the
Oromo people in its struggle. The
fundamental political objectives of the OLF,
the realization of the Oromo People’s
inalienable rights to self-determination,
are intact. These fundamental objectives of
the OLF are supported by millions of Oromos.
In order to soon realize the fundamental
objectives of the OLF, the Council has
directed its Executive Committee to organize
and conduct multifaceted struggle.
To thwart the Oromo people’s support for the
OLF, the TPLF regime/the Ethiopian
Government has engaged in unparalleled
suppression of the Oromo people. The heinous
atrocities the TPLF regime is perpetrating
on the Oromo people is intensifying. Even
the Oromo refugees who fled the country due
to persecution and fear of persecution by
the regime are not safe from the inhuman and
cruel atrocities that TPLF regimes unleashed
on the Oromo people. The recent mass
killing/massacre of the Oromo refugees in
Bosasso, Somalia, perpetrated by the TPLF
regime’s forces is another evidence of the
inhuman and cruel atrocities that the TPLF
regime is perpetrating on the Oromo people
inside and outside the country. The National
Council of the Oromo Liberation Front again
vigorously condemns the TPLF regime’s cruel
and inhuman action taken against the Oromo
refugees in Bosasso.
The National Council noted and appreciated
the Oromo people’s support for the OLF that
is unabated in spite of the TPLF regime’s
arbitrary arrests, wanton and extra-judicial
killings, dispossessions and other appalling
human rights violations. The National
Council again calls upon the Oromo people to
continue its defiance of the tyranny of the
TPLF regime, to foil the regime’s divide and
rule tactics/ schemes and to double its just
struggle until its legitimate aspirations
for liberation, human rights and democracy
are achieved.
There is no form of suppression and atrocity
that the minority based TPLF regime did not
and will not commit to perpetrate its
tyrannical rule. The atrocities that the
TPLF regime is committing against the people
are evidence that substantiates the TPLF
regimes unwillingness to peacefully and
democratically address the peoples’
political questions for liberation and
democracy. As a result, the TPLF regime, in
contravention of its own constitution,
international laws and norms, is escalating
the suppression of and atrocities against
the peoples of the country. It is also
continuing its interference in the internal
affairs of the neighbouring countries. The
TPLF regime is an anti-peace and
anti-stability force in the Horn of Africa.
The Council, therefore, reminds and warns
that the TPLF regime that it shall be
responsible for the consequences of the
tensions and worrisome situation that is
prevailing the Horn of Africa.
It is to be recalled that the TPLF regime
has repeatedly pledged to the peoples of the
country and the international community that
it is committed to bring democracy, peace
and development to Ethiopia. Nevertheless,
the hitherto process and records of the TPLF
regime show that the regime conducts sham
and rigged periodic elections for the sake
of “legitimizing” its tyrannical rule. The
truth the regimes’ records show beyond doubt
is the TPLF regime lacks the political will
and capacity to organize free and fair
elections and to accept the verdict of the
people. We, therefore, call up on all
political forces that are struggling for
liberation and democracy to pull our forces
and resources together and remove from power
the anti-people, anti-democracy and
anti-peace regime of the TPLF and pave the
way for liberation, democracy, peace and
development.
The gross human rights violations it has
engaged in, the economic exploitation and
dispossession of the people it has embarked
up on, its sinister acts of divide and rule
and the acts pitting and inciting people of
the country against one another and the
wanton interference in the internal affairs,
the aggression and occupation of
neighbouring countries unmistakably
demonstrate that the TPLF regime is an
anti-peace force that is destabilizing the
Horn of Africa. In a total disregard to the
TPLF tyrannical regimes’ glaring bad human
rights records and shameful and
irresponsible behaviour, the Western
Countries’ continued their economic,
political, diplomatic and military support
to the regime. The Western Countries’
support to the TPLF regime is not only
saddening; it also contravenes their
publicly known policies and stated
declarations. Therefore, the OLF National
Council calls up on Western Countries to
review and reconsider their policies towards
the tyrannical TPLF regime and stand with
the OLF and other forces of liberation,
democracy, justice, peace and progress.
Victory to the Oromo People!
National Council of the OLF
March 21, 2008 |
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